Readers’ Recommendations: Books, podcasts, blogs, videos

We asked you (our wonderful readers and community) for recommendations… Books, articles, podcasts and more, broadly related to population health and epidemiology. Here’s what you said! Books Human Compatible, by Stuart Russell. Described by @DaniKim_02 as ‘A comprehensive but succinct reading about where the advances in AI are taking us… a great mix of technical …

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Learning R and Dogs – An Experience from a Hackathon

Yes, you read it correctly. In what wonderful universe are dogs associated with learning the programming language R? I am sure we have all experienced some degree of despair when learning or working with R and would have loved to cuddle a dog for that feeling of unconditional support and affection. Unfortunately, our everyday working …

Media Monthly: It’s all about the money in Netflix Original “Okja”

Welcome back to media-not-so-monthly. To all my loyal fans, apologies for my hiatus. You wouldn’t believe it from the quality of these reviews…but this isn’t my full time job. On with the show - this time, it's Netflix Original Okja. Monsanto, oops I mean Mirando, has discovered a new super-pig that is both more delicious …

Cities will determine the health and wellbeing of populations in the 21st century: Threat or opportunity?

Building a case for action The environment in which we move, work, learn, play, and eat determines our potential to achieve good health. Concrete jungles, food desserts, roads which resemble car parking lots, overpowering air and noise pollution, obesogenic environments, and isolation among density are not uncommon features of urban living – all of which …

Media Monthly: What a vegan mockumentary can teach us about public health

Welcome to 2067, a meat-free futuristic utopia where veganism is the new norm. Picture-perfect, healthful, happy youths cannot come to terms with the gruesome fact that their ancestors consumed meat – whilst remorseful elders attend intensive therapy to help swallow their un-camembert-able past. And so begins the journey to understand how the world was, and where …

Changing 5-a-day to 10-a-day would be bananas

Last week, the UK news was flooded with the message that we should be eating 10 portions of fruit and veg a day, not 5. If we all ate 10 portions of fruit and vegetables, 7.8 million premature deaths a year worldwide would be avoided, the media reported. As a DPhil student in public health, …